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Validation and Application of the Mass Balance Model To Determine the Effectiveness of Portable Air Purifiers in Removing Ultrafine and Submicrometer Particles in an Apartment Wan-Chen Lee,*,† Paul J. Catalano,‡ Jun Young Yoo,§ Chan Jung Park,§ and Petros Koutrakis† †
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Landmark Center West, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States ‡ Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 44 Binney Street, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute CLSB 11015, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States § Coway R&D center, Seoul National University. Research Park, 56-39, Nakseongdaero 15-gil, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-919, Republic of Korea S Supporting Information *
ABSTRACT: We validated the use of the mass balance model to determine the effectiveness of portable air purifiers in removing ultrafine (
